Update on Sunday 22nds anti-fascist action in Brighton.
[ Read Full Story ]Gratton the German Activist who was tasered during the Dale Farm Eviction finally had his electronic tag removed.
[ Read Full Story ]The fuel of the far right – half truths, misrepresentation and lies.
[ Read Full Story ]Long-term Brighton anti-war direct action campaigners Smash EDO are gearing up for the start of the long awaited Summer of Resistance this coming week.
[ Read Full Story ]
Climate Justice target UK Energy Summit
[ Read Full Story ]A new strategy inspired by South American peasant movements has emerged in San Francisco. 'Occupy The Farm' intends to break the corporations' control over the food industry and replace it by community-managed food production.
[ Read Full Story ]
Worthing based anti-abortionists get a taste of their own medicine.
[ Read Full Story ]
Saturday 21st April 2012 evening saw LARC (London Action Resource Centre) play host to a talk from a speaker from Anti-Fascist Action Ireland.
[ Read Full Story ]
Italian museum burns art works in protest over budget cuts as art imitates life
[ Read Full Story ]
A new community-based bartering system emerged in Volos, Greece to counteract the devastating effects of an all time high recession.
[ Read Full Story ]
Indigenous and environmental groups are fighting Brazil's Belo Monte dam. Built in the heart of the Amazon, the project threatens to destroy rich ecosystems and displace indigenous cultures
[ Read Full Story ]Coup and secession in Mali are the unintended consequences of NATO's regime change in Libya
[ Read Full Story ]
As Palestinian's prepare to mark Prisoner's Day on the 17th April, prisoners call for mass open-ended hunger strike
[ Read Full Story ]Pre games tension spills over into police violence against migrants and activists in Calais
[ Read Full Story ]
Anti militarists in Bristol successfully disrupt the Unmanned Aircraft Vehicle Conference in Bristol
[ Read Full Story ]
Day of Mass Action against genItically modified wheat in Harpenden
[ Read Full Story ]Brighton squatters made homeless in a politically motivated eviction
[ Read Full Story ]
The Wilderness centre in Mitcheldean in the Forest of Dean was taken by activists back in January after budget cuts forced it to close in August last year.
[ Read Full Story ]
‘May ’68 and the Rise of Anti-Racism in France’ with Daniel A. Gordon
Daniel A Gordon’s new book ‘Immigrants and Intellectuals: May ’68 and the Rise of Anti-racism in France’ tells for the first time the full story of the rise and fall of a cycle of protest movements for the rights of migrant workers from 1961 to 1983.
Address: Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, London N1 9DX
Nearest Public Transport: King
Postcode: N1 9DX
Time: 7pm
Price: £3, redeemable against any purchase
Phone: 020 7837 4473
Email: nik@housmans.com
Web: http://www.housmans.com
Launch of KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: An A-Z for sex workers
Contributions on sex workers’ rights from US PROStitutes Collective and other international guests from Guyana, Haiti, India, Ireland
Delicious low cost vegetarian food
Organised by: English Collective of Prostitutes
Supported by: Black Women’s Rape Action Project, GMB Sex Workers branch, Legal Action for Women, Safety First, Sex Workers Open University, Single Mothers’ Self-Defence, QueerStrike, Women Against Rape
Address: Crossroads Women’s Centre 25 Wolsey Mews, Kentish Town, NW5 2DX.
Postcode: NW5 2DX
Time: 7pm – 9pm Exhibition opens 6pm and will run for two weeks
Price: Free
Phone: 020 7482 2496
Email: ecp@prostitutescollective.net
Web: http://www.prostitutescollective.net/
‘What makes good radical writing?’
On Tuesday 1st May the first recipient of the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing shall be announced. The process of creating a radical book prize has brought up interesting questions as to how to evaluate radical writing. Is the primary goal to effectively communicate ideas? And if so, how do we measure its effectiveness? How do we measure it’s radicalism? Must it be accessible to all readers, or is there a place for pedantic or even obscure writing?
Based on their experiences within the radical wing of contemporary journalism and book publishing, our speakers will navigate the tensions between vanguardism and populism that have guided radical writing and actions for the last century, and reflect on how these tensions are manifested today.
Please join us as we tackle these questions in what will be an illuminating discussion on the forms and contents of radical communication.
Address: Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, London N1 9DX
Directions: King's Cross
Nearest Public Transport: King
Postcode: N1 9DX
Time: 7pm
Price: £3, redeemable against any purchase
Phone: 020 7837 4473
Email: nik@housmans.com
Web: http://www.housmans.com
European crust/punk/hardcore with
CROP CIRCLES (quality italian fastcore)
LEFT IN RUINS (italian anarcho crust)
51st STATE (west country anarchopunk)
B.H.F. (german political punk)
Benefit for the Brighton Squatters Convergence 17th-20th May
Address: A Squat in Brighton, TBC
Postcode: BN1
Time: 8pm
Price: £3/4
Web: http://punxpicnic.wordpress.com
With a bit of luck there should be some workshops (nominate yourself to run one!) and plenty of opportunities to get rowdy with your fellow
squatters.
Celebrate squatting, meet squatters from all over the UK and other countries, spread the word about what's going on in your city, and mobilise for action against the squatting ban right on Mike Weatherly's door step.
In true squatter style this event will be focused on D.I.Y. and autonomous ethos so bring ideas, friends and things to share.
Address: Brighton
Phone: 07583 010898
Email: convergencebrighton@riseup.net
Web: http://network23.org/snob
Address: Hugletts Wood Farm Animal Sanctuary, Grovelye Lane,Churches Green,Dallington,East Sussex
Directions: At Woods Corner on the B2096 turn up beside the pub. Go along to the first right turn and turn right, Onto the fork and fork right, At duck pond turn left, on and turn right,HWFAS along on left.
Nearest Public Transport: Robertsbridge rail staion. Pick up available.
Postcode: TN21 9PA
Time: 11am til 5pm
Price: Donation in bucket
Phone: 07884046703
Email: janejacks0n@btinternet.com
Bakers, farmers, growers, allotment holders, scientists, beekeepers, and people who eat food are turning out to voice their opposition to GM crops coming back to the UK.
Meet Sunday 27th May, at 12 noon, in Rothamsted, Harpenden, Herts. Or take your own action in your own way, at your own time. Together we can stop this trial.
Address: Rothamsted, Harpenden, Herts
Time: 12 noon
Email: info@taketheflourback.org
Web: www.taketheflourback.org
We are inviting local, national and international groups to take responsibility for a day of anti-nuclear activities, this can be a march to the base, a demo at the gates, a blockade, a mass trespass, a die-in... get creative! If you are a small group or an individual and want to team up with others, we can help choreograph partnerships. We can also facilitate workshops on peaceful direct action at Faslane so no activist experience is necessary. There will be lots to be done day to day and plenty of roles to fulfil during the 30 Days campaign and the time leading up to it so enthusiastic helpers (and donations) will be welcomed with open arms! Communal meals will be provided and there will be plenty of sleeping and camping spaces.
Address: Faslane Peace Camp, Shandon, Helensburgh, G84 8NN.
Directions: road a814, bus 318? from glasgow, train from edinburgh or gasgow low level to helensburgh, then local bus to camp
Nearest Public Transport: edinburgh/glasgow/helensburgh
Postcode: G8 48NN
Price: free/donation
Phone: 01436 820901
Email: Faslane30@riseup.net
Web: faslane peace camp on facebook
For taking the turd way...
German protesters were arrested in Athens on Thursday after leaving a giant golden crap on the doorstep of the German embassy in the Greek capital, in protest against Berlin's “neoliberal EU policy".
The politico/artists collective from Hamburg, Schwabinggrad Ballett, who dumped the excremental offering topped it off with a huge photo of the German national emblem – the eagle, embellished with Angela Merkel's head.
Greek cops soon arrested ten of the 13-strong group and confiscated their fake faeces. They're all now presumably in the shit.
Afro-Punk, explores race identity within the punk scene. More than your everyday, Behind the Music or typical "black history month" documentary this film tackles the hard questions, such as issues of loneliness, exile, inter-racial dating and black power.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012, 8:00pm until 11:00pm
Follow filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and his circle of friends as they dumpster dive in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of L.A.'s supermarkets. In the process they uncover thousands of dollars worth of good food and an ugly truth about waste in America: grocery stores know they are wasting and most refuse to do anything about it.
Dive! Living Off America’s Waste by first-time filmmaker Jeremy Seifert, and made with a budget of a mere US$200, explores how American grocery stores are quietly filling their dumpsters with edible food while so many people in the USA go without proper access to nutritious food.
Monday, June 11, 2012, 8:00pm until 11:00pm
As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed people's lives forever. Filmmaker Julien Temple takes a look beyond the guise of the late, anti-establishment icon Joe Strummer to offer a warm portrait of the self-described "mouthy little git" who was born John Mellor and was destined to become the frontman for one of the most influential punk bands ever.
A complex figure who would learn to use his gift for music as a means of decompressing his conscience, Strummer is revealed here through unearthed interviews and the illuminating recollections of his closest companions.
Monday, June 25, 2012, 8:00pm until 11:00pm
Rupert Murdoch is a commie... it's official, well at least according to our friends on the various forums and facebook sites that make up the collective half-wit of the far-right. Just imagine returning home, exhausted from your efforts to hold the George Cross high and shout racist abuse while being showered with horse-shit by a bunch of communist homosexual freaks - only to find out that your favourite newspaper has a decidedly different take on events.
Hilariously the Sun Says op-ed piece on Monday blamed the 'neo-Nazis' of the EDL for dragging the flag 'through the gutter'. This one fact did more to rile the knuckle-draggers of the March for England than any number of airborne bottles of piss.
In fact some of the EDLs intellectual vanguard are beginning to suspect that the red-tops aren't telling the whole truth (!), with one online marcher spouting “DONT BUY A F*CKING NEWSPAPER. IT SPOUTS THE SAME B*LLOCKS ALL THE TIME. TAKE A LEAF OUT OF LIVERPOOL. MOST OF THEM DONT BUY THE SUN ANYMORE SO BOYCOTT ALL NEWSPAPERS!”
Now lads – if you could just extend that (albeit slightly faulty) logic to all the “Muslamic suicide-nonce Sharia Law benefit fraud shame” stories that got you so riled up in the first place, then maybe we could all enjoy next years St George's Day in peace.
